2015 Events

The Vice President's Office for Diversity and Community Affairs presentsFight for Civil Rights: Black Lives Matter and Voting Rights. This programs explores the current issues around Voting Rights and the Black Lives Matter Movement with Donita Judge, Esq. and Vincent Warren, Esq.

Dr. Cameron McCarthy, professor of Global Studies in Education from the University of Illinois, will be the Civic Participation Project's salon speaker discussion on new media and collaborative methods.

This volume in the Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies series draws from a variety of perspectives to examine the changing Latino Diaspora across the United States. Through research and narrative, scholars examine many complex issies beyond the pattern of lower educational success, including: language and legal status in schools, international adoption, and teacher preparation.

The Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs and The African Diaspora International Film Festival invite you to the a night of short films. These short films are:

1. Lazy Susan by Stephen Abbott A friendly waitress Susan works a double at an everyday Cape Town restaurant, deftly serving gluttons ans wasps. hipsters and high-tippers, racists and lechers.

2. China Remix by Melissa LefkowitzThis short documentary explores the city of Guangzhou, China's burgeoning African entertainment industry through the lives of three African hip-hop artists who are trying to find success in the face of China's challenging labor and immigration laws.

3. Lift Every Voice by Dallas Alexis This movie sheds light on how a teacher was able to get her students motivated and interested into the exam and their education by incorporating Rap and Hip-Hop into their curriculumn.

Thomas Novak: M&E: A College Scholarship Program for Disadvantaged Girls in Gujarat, India

Moderated by Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi

Guest of Honor: Dr. Marie F. Volpe

The Carmela and Marie F. Volpe Fellowship for International Service in Education supports ICE Program students to travel internationally with a research focus on the education of orphans, street children, child laborers, or other marginalized children. The fellowship is made possible through the generous donations of Carmela and Marie F. Volpe.

We look forward to seeing you at the first Racial Literacy Roundtable of the 2015-2016 academic year: "Masculinities and Race: Exploring Intersections and Experience" on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at Teachers College, Columbia University in Horace Mann 150 from 6:00 - 8:00. Pizza and refreshments start at 5:30 p.m. Flyer is attached.

Youth and Well-Being Series: For the third year in a row, all Roundtable topics are dedicated to the lives of young people. Topics will explore how race intersects with language, life, and literacy practices, as well as the in- and out-of-school experiences of school-age youth, some of whom are court-involved and in foster care.

Demystifying the IRB: A Very Important Session for All Doctoral Candidates

Presented by Professors Alex Bowers and Lyle Yorks

Wednesday, October 28th, 7:00 to 8:30pm

In 109 Zankel.

Please RSVP by October 26th with Jolene Lane, Director for Diversity and Community Affairs at lane@tc.columbia.edu.

For the past several years, the Office for Diversity and Community Affairs has been working in collaboration with the Office of the Provost to lead the Black and Latino Male Doctoral Education Initiative (BLMDEI). All of the programs of this initiative are OPEN TO EVERYONE, however the initiative has been particularly focused on working to improve the recruitment and retention of Black and Latino males in doctoral programs at TC. We work with Masters students offering informative workshops with faculty sharing insights about doctoral education, its value, research and mentorship. We work with doctoral students offering valuable information to help them progress through program requirements.

Completing the Training and Certification through the IRB is a major milestone in the doctoral education process that must be completed after your dissertation proposal hearing. This session will include in formation on CITI, the required free online training program in Human Subject Research, and filing the requisite application with TC’s IRB.

We present a number of programs each year as part of the BLMDEI, and this fall we will begin by offering a program intending to de-mystify the Institutional Review Board process. “The Teachers College Institutional Review Board, in conformity with federal regulations, requires principal investigators to undergo training in the ethics of research involving human subjects.” As an investigator on a research protocol for your dissertation, you are required to provide documentation of such training.

The Facilitator will be Rebecca Jennings, Associate Director, Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities (OASID) and Program Director, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services.

The Inclusive Event Planning Training for student employees will contain very useful information on planning and advertising events to assure that events are accessible to individuals with disabilities at TC. The training will be offered on Wednesday November 4th, 1:00 - 2:30PM in 406 Zankel. If you are a student employee in an office that deals with student activities/events or student interaction, it is strongly encourage you to attend this training.

FERPA is an important session required of all TC full-time faculty and professional staff, and because of your classification at an employee, it is strongly encouraged that you attend one of the FERPA sessions and the INCLUSIVE EVENT PLANNING session. You will be paid to attend, and we will notify all College Work-Study supervisors of these important training sessions.

FERPA contains very useful information pertaining to student privacy laws and educational rights. The training will be offered on Monday, November 9th, 12:00 – 1:30pm in 214 Zankel, and Tuesday, November 17th, 2:30 – 4:00pm in 406 Zankel.

The Vice President’s Office for Diversity and Community Affairs is hosting a Microaggressions Workshop Series for Students

You are encouraged to attend the Cultural and Racial Microaggressions Workshops and expand your understanding of how brief and commonplace daily verbal & behavioral indignities can have a huge impact on yourself and others. This workshop seeks to provide practical information on how to address microaggressions and encouraging self-awareness in- and outside of the classroom. Please register early for all Workshops in the Series!

Microaggressions Series – Workshop I

November 11, 2015 from 3pm-5pm in 547 Grace Dodge.

Dr. Kevin Nadal, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center (CUNY)

Dr. Christina Capodilupo, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology at Teachers College

Dr. Capodilupo’s workshop will address gender microaggressions and intersections addressing difficult dialogues in the classroom. You will receive some academic grounding of microaggressions and have the opportunity to examine case studies with small and large group discussions.

Microaggressions Series – Workshop III

February 2015, Date and Location TBD

Dr. Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College

Dr. Sue’s workshop will address microaggressions in everyday life and the resistence to the concept of microaggressions.

Dr. Sue is the author of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence – Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race (2015) and Microaggressions in Everyday Life (2010).

FERPA is an important session required of all TC full-time faculty and professional staff, and because of your classification at an employee, it is strongly encouraged that you attend one of the FERPA sessions and the INCLUSIVE EVENT PLANNING session. You will be paid to attend, and we will notify all College Work-Study supervisors of these important training sessions.

FERPA contains very useful information pertaining to student privacy laws and educational rights. The training will be offered on Monday, November 9th, 12:00 – 1:30pm in 214 Zankel, and Tuesday, November 17th, 2:30 – 4:00pm in 406 Zankel.

JOIN OUR PANEL to learn and to discuss about feminism(s) in educational practice and research.

Ileana Jiménez is a leader in the field of feminist and social justice education. She inspires teachers to bringintersectional feminism to the K-12 classroom through her blog, Feminist Teacher.

Jess Simon is a coordinator at GenSexNYC, an anti-oppression sexuality workshop for all gender identities.

Dr.Sandra Schmidt is an assistant professor of Social Studies Education at TC. Her research on geography,gender and queer has greatly contributed for Social Studies. She has also worked as a teacher educator in Dedza, Malawi.

Karishma Desai is aTC Doctoral student in Curriculum & Teaching and will be a facilitator for the panel.

November 18th: Everything You Wanted To Know About Trans Experience But Were Afraid To Ask Co-Sponsored by Student Senate, Queer TC, LGBTQ at Columbia University, Columbia University Office of Multicultural Affairs, Vice President's Office for Diversity and Community Affairs

To honor Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law will host a screening of the documentary, “Pay It No Mind – The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson”, directed by Michael Kasino and Richard Morrison.

Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson was a radical activist who fought for more than 3 decades for LGBT liberation. Ms. Johnson was one of the transgender activists on the ground fighting for LGBT rights during the Stonewall Riots, and in the 1970s she co-founded S.T.A.R., the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (later re-named the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries) with legendary transgender activist Sylvia Rivera.

Following the screening of the film, the Center will host a panel discussion with Che Gossett, Tyler Ford and Suneela Mubayi moderated by Benjamin I.J. Mintzer.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

The Vice President’s Office for Diversity and Community Affairs is hosting a

Microaggressions Workshop Series for Students

You are encouraged to attend the Cultural and Racial Microaggressions Workshops and expand your understanding of how brief and commonplace daily verbal & behavioral indignities can have a huge impact on yourself and others. This workshop seeks to provide practical information on how to address microaggressions and encouraging self-awareness in- and outside of the classroom. Please register early for all Workshops in the Series.

Microaggressions Series – Workshop I

November 11, 2015 from 3pm-5pm in 547 Grace Dodge.

Dr. Kevin Nadal, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center (CUNY)

Dr. Christina Capodilupo, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education and Psychology at Teachers College

Dr. Capodilupo’s workshop will address gender microaggressions and intersections addressing difficult dialogues in the classroom. You will receive some academic grounding of microaggressions and have the opportunity to examine case studies with small and large group discussions.

Microaggressions Series – Workshop III

February 2015, Date and Location TBD

Dr. Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College

Dr. Sue’s workshop will address microaggressions in everyday life and the resistence to the concept of microaggressions.

Dr. Sue is the author of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence – Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race (2015) and Microaggressions in Everyday Life (2010).

he dinner seeks to bring together faculty, staff, and students to foster a Latina/o community on campus and to create professional networks. Your support is essential for the success of the Latino Unity Dinner and the creation of a welcoming community for Teachers College Latinas/os. I hope you will confirm your attendance to this special event.

Please join the Civic Participation Project at Teachers College for a follow-up Cafe discussion about race dialogue on American campuses (and elsewhere) Tuesday December 8th from 1-2:30PM in Thompson 229. This is a space for you to talk about what YOU want to talk about. Your voice matters! Coffee and Tea will be provided.

Charter schools are no stranger in New York City's educational landscape. The movement continues to be the subject of considerable debate and discussion. Whether you are for it, against it, or don't know what to think about it, we want to hear from you!

Join us for a film screening of The Lottery followed by a panel discussion featuring professors from both C&T and EPSA, as well as representatives from local NYC charter schools. The details are below (please also see the flyer attached):Date: December 8th, 2015 (Tuesday)Time: 7:00-9:30 PMLocation: Everett Lounge (Zankel 118)

The Vice President's Office for Diversity and Community Affairs has been working with the Office of the Provost to lead the Black and Latino Male Doctoral Education Initiative.

The programs of this initiative are open to everyone.

The next event will be for Masters students, titled "Considering Doctoral Education? Reconciling Advanced Study Despite Systemic Racism in a National Climate of Campus Unrest." Faculty members who will share their personal stories, and offer information about what they look for in a doctoral application.

In the current climate where educational institutions nationally have been confronting a number of intense issues that are impacting students profoundly, we would like to acknowledge the unfortunate and hateful rhetoric that has been circulating through different media platforms, and the impact of cultural battle fatigue that it may be causing students and colleagues of the Muslim faith.

We know the students are also dealing with all of this in tandem with a stressful academic schedule with finals approaching.

We would like to provide some support for the Muslim students and professionals at Teachers College by hosting a meeting to bring everyone together in solidarity, and to provide a forum in which we can offer our support. The agenda primarily will be to express our care and concern and to assess how we can be most supportive.

Imam Shair Abdul-Mani, Special Advisor to the Columbia University Chaplain will facilitate.

Patricia Llosa and Gloria M. Rodriguez will discuss their personal paths to their work and how they integrate their culture, including indigenous understandings of healing into their professional practices with individuals or groups. They will showcase an example to illustrate how spirit and culture informs their view of treatment.

Patricia Llosa is a Jungian psychoanalyst interested in cross-cultural issues in her private practice in NYC. She also leads groups on creativity and body-centered therapeutic modalities at the intersections between psychology, anthropology and the arts. Patricia will discuss the roots of her own practice as a therapist, in particular WoodmanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s pioneering Jungian group work with women that combines movement, dream, and art. Patricia grew up in Lima, Peru, is passionate about both Spanish and indigenous cultures, and will talk about how they continue to inform her work and imagination.

Gloria M. RodrÃƒÂ­guez is the Founder and Director of DeAlmas WomenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Institute, a community-based organization launched in 1998. Literally meaning Ã¢â‚¬Å“of the soul.Ã¢â‚¬Â Gloria practices New Thought/Ancient Wisdom teachings and is an initiate of the Diety Oshun in the Yoruba/Lukumi religious tradition. DeAlmas is dedicated to providing women the opportunity to reclaim, honor and express their divine feminine gifts and human potential through spiritual and personal transformation. Ms. RodrÃƒÂ­guez presents workshops, keynote addresses and lectures to national and international audiences at major colleges, conferences and retreats.

Featuring graduate students from A&HM 4357 Instrumental Chamber Ensemble, Festive Collaborations and Gypsy Jazz is led by Teachers College Applied Piano Instructor and current doctoral student Cynthia Tobey. Also on the faculty of Bard College Conservatory and the Luzerne Music Center, Cynthia is an accomplished music educator and pianist who performs extensively, both nationally and internationally. Her TC graduate students will play light holiday fare, including Christmas carols from around the world, gypsy jazz standards, and new compositions by TC student Concetta Abbate, using string instruments.

--The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles!

If you'd like to participate, please contact us with your details via online support.

--Individuals with disabilities are invited to request reasonable accommodations including, but not limited to sign language interpretation, Braille or large print materials, and a campus map of accessible features. Address these requests to the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities at (212) 678-3689, keller@tc.edu, or Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at (212) 678-3853 V/TTY, rgf2104@tc.edu.